Scottish director John McLean's striking take on the classic Western is an elegantly made coming-of-age story, defined by an everpresent sense that violence is only ever a heartbeat away and by Fassbender's impressive performance as a grizzled killer who takes on the unlikely role of father-figure.

Weak support for the compensatory hypothesis is found for more global attitudes toward fatherhood and in results suggesting men with a father-figure have more favorable father attitudes than men who did not have a father-figure.

He pitches his stories at the weekly staff meetings, regaling a table of admiring staffers including fellow reporters (played by Chloe Sevigny and Melanie Lynskey) and a father-figure editor, Michael Kelly (Hank Azaria).

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